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Who will win Hunter's Game?
1865, Texas. The American Civil War is over but a final pocket of defiance remains. Despite the recent surrender of General Lee, a secret plan is hatched for the Texan insurgents to receive a last shipment of deadly munitions that could spell ruin for the Union forces facing them.
Major Sparanero, of the Union, uses one of his undercover agents to discover that the weapons are being sent by train. There will only be one chance to prevent the munitions being put into the field - as the train crosses the fragile bridge over Tophet Gorge. Before his capture the undercover agent sets a bomb beneath the train and marks it for a sharpshooter.
Hunter - a disillusioned deserter - is the only one skilled enough to make that shot. Bribed by Sparanero to return one final time, Hunter is charged with destroying the train. But an enemy colonel with whom Hunter has history discovers the mission, and so begins a deadly game of hide and seek...
Simon Bestwick
Simon Bestwick has been described as “brilliant” by the Guardian, and “among the most important writers of contemporary British horror” by fellow writer Ramsey Campbell. Born in Wolverhampton, he lived in Manchester for many years before relocating to Merseyside with his partner. He now lives on the Wirral. He is the author of nine novels and four short story collections, and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award six times.
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